I could not help observing during the visit of the Orange Monster to the mother country, how a certain segment of the American population is so blind to the realities of the world that was created in the wake of World War II. And I am talking specifically of that
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The warning signs are evident.
Walter Schaub was the director of the United States Office of Government Ethics from 2013 -2017. Watching how Trump adminstration officials were playing fast and loose with government ethics rules, he quit because he knew that he could not do his job the way it should be done. Since then
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It is Thursday again and time for a (slightly) older post, this one from 2014. Given the crush of news about The President being as childish as ever while fucking up being in Japan, I thought it would be worth reviewing a non-political subject. Enjoy. From August 27, 2014. I
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“Keep your arms inside the vehicle at all times. The ride is going to get rocky from here on out.” – Robert Mueller, bus driver. Robert Mueller still has faith in the Constitutional process in America. He may be the last man in America to do so. Certainly Mitch McConnell
Continue readingMemorial Day.
I don’t have much to add to the discourse on this Memorial Day. In the past 14 Years I have written a good number of posts honoring the event. You can read some of the better ones here, here, here, and here. I can also point you to a list
Continue readingWe must persevere.
Wow. It certainly was some week. Not a great week mind you, as far as the history of the United States goes, but it was a unique week. That is, if you are hell-bent on destroying the government of a Constitutional Republic by subverting the democratic rule of law. If
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It’s Thursday again, and time to post one of my older posts – this one from 5 years ago. What prompted it was reading this article on another forum. I don’t think the root logic has changed. The military, by definition, cannot be a “family friendly employer.” Enjoy. Well, it’s
Continue readingThis is nothing to celebrate.
This past weekend at the commencement ceremonies for Morehouse College, billionaire Robert Smith promised to pay off the student loan debt fully of every student graduating in 2019. When you consider that Morehouse had 396 people graduating. Just for argument’s sake lets assume all of them had student loans, that
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One of the remarkable things of my 8 years here in Europe is how I have become enthralled in the competitions that Americans don’t get to see. For example in 2012, the S.O. and I got deeply into the EURO 2012 football ( soccer) tournament. Same with 2016 – and
Continue readingBack in the day, Ma Bell would have killed you for this.
For the sin of not having a ……… wait for it…………..”a landline”. I’ve had one all my adult life and growing up as a boy of the ’60s and ’70s, if you could not use someone’s phone or get to a pay phone, you just were out of communication. Those
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